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Age and productivity: Sector differences?

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

In most industrialised countries, the workforce is ageing rapidly. If ageing workforces affect sectors differently, the total impact of ageing will depend on the industrial structure of an economy. This paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity...

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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...

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Why Pay Seniority Wages?

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

This paper characterises establishments that pay higher seniority wages than their competitors. It tests whether seniority wages are paid on the basis of agency, human capital or efficiency wage considerations. A representative linked employeremployee panel and an innovative two-step estimation...

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The Employment Consequences of Seniority Wages

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper combines two strains of the literature on the employment effects of deferred compensation. The first strain separates seniority and job matching wage effects on the basis of individual data, but cannot look at employment consequences. The second strain explains the employment...

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Age and productivity: evidence from linked employer employee data

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employer-employee panel...

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

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Human capital creates insider power

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...

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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education

Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …

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